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This is the view John Keats had of the world for the last months of his life. Once he was too sick to climb the Spanish Steps to the Pincian Hill view of the sunset over the piazza delle popolo and take in the sweeping view of the renaissance rooftops of cupolas, churches, houses and […]

One of my favorite and most romantic things to do in Rome is to stroll through the Villa Borghese parks and gardens to one of the most elegant and sensual villa art museums on earth: The Galleria Borghese. The Renaissance and Baroque gardens of umbrella pines, cypresses, palm trees, flowers, hedges, and exquisite lemon, […]

There’s old Winston Churchill watching Big Ben, in Westminster, London, in March 2014. An anglophile’s dream: the omnipresent iconic red telephone box. Wandering around Portobello Road, in the Notting Hill neighborhood. The street art / grafitti is like The Sex Pistols and the Bbc all rolled into one. Tea at Sherlock Holmes and Watson’s house […]

Swing by the Villa Sciarra park in the residential Monteverde neighborhood. If you are going to visit the very off the beaten path Monteverde area, you may as well start at the Giancolo (Janiculum Hill) for the panorama view, which is nice, and the interesting area around it. Then walk down the hill to the […]

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I’m posting some recommendations I wrote in Rome last year for the tumblr blog where I get a lot of travel advice questions. I am currently on the island of Capri so I am writing this by memory and pasting on my iPad – so bear with any mistakes or typos. I am in Italy […]

The small piazza or center of Anacapri. Take a left at the Piazza and follow the path and signs to the Villa San Michele. There are little shops along the way selling great lemoncello and meloncello and other gifts. A side wall of the Villa San Michele, a charming ivy covered garden wall and rounded […]

Trastevere is a charming neighborhood across the Tiber from the historic center of Rome. It’s a great spot to have lunch and spend an afternoon walking around, admiring the warm, faded colors of the buildings. They bake wonderful breads and cookies at La Renella and sell handmade chocolates at Valzoni to locals and tourists. My […]

An excellent little art history discussion on Artemisia Gentileschi (in french) with high quality sound and photographs. By Anne STEINBERG-VIEVILLE. Worth a look and a listen even if you don’t speak french – the image comparisons and baroque music still make it compelling. In honor of International Womans Day! (Which no-one seems to celebrate in America, […]